"celly" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɛli/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-celly.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cellies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛli Etymology: From cell + -y. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|cell|y|id2=diminutive}} cell + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} celly (plural cellies)
  1. (prison slang) A cellmate. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-celly-en-noun-9I89sJFQ Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -y (diminutive) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y (diminutive): 61 28 11
  2. (prison slang) One’s room of incarceration, jailcell. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Prison
    Sense id: en-celly-en-noun-ugGGDlz8 Disambiguation of Prison: 14 60 4 21
  3. (slang) A cellular phone. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Mobile phones
    Sense id: en-celly-en-noun-QUllbo0d Disambiguation of Mobile phones: 9 5 70 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cellie
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɛli/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-celly.wav [Southern-England] Forms: cellys [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛli Head templates: {{en-noun|s}} celly (plural cellys)
  1. (ice hockey slang) Diminutive of celebration; A goal celebration. Tags: diminutive, form-of, slang Form of: celebration (extra: A goal celebration) Categories (topical): Ice hockey, People
    Sense id: en-celly-en-noun--jbW-oT1 Disambiguation of People: 4 2 0 94 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 17 4 52 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 34 12 3 45 3 3 Topics: hobbies, ice-hockey, lifestyle, skating, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cellie
Etymology number: 2

Adverb [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|adverb}} celly
  1. Alternative form of selly Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: selly
    Sense id: en-celly-enm-adv-zaOFuvfR

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} celly
  1. Alternative form of selly Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: selly
    Sense id: en-celly-enm-noun-zaOFuvfR

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.